The Burning Bride

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Published by: Prism Light Press
Release Date: October 25, 2022
Pages: 333

 

She thought of that poor woman in the flaming wedding dress as she fell from the window of the burning hotel…

A bullet barely misses Manhattan society writer Louisa Delafield, and her publisher insists she leave the city for what seems like an easy assignment in Florida until a wedding guest winds up dead with a stolen diamond in his hand.

Louisa investigates the mysterious death, but finds the answers hard to come by when a mesmerizing French man distracts her from her duties.

In New York, Louisa’s assistant, Ellen Malloy, infiltrates an anarchists’ enclave to discover who shot at Louisa and risks losing the woman of her dreams in her pursuit.

Louisa and Ellen travel parallel paths as they confront dynamite-wielding anarchists, hungry alligators, and a raging fire, but the toughest obstacles they face are their own wayward hearts.

Read The Burning Bride, Book 3 of the Delafield & Malloy Investigation series by best-selling author Trish MacEnulty today

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Excerpt

Louisa sat at her desk on the third floor of The Ledger, furiously punching the keys of her type-writer as her anger spilled onto the page. L. Byron had the gall to publish another article, condemning all society writers, claiming they betrayed the laborers who set the type, ran the presses and delivered the finished newspapers. He didn’t care if they were all shot.

She didn’t know if the shooter was an anarchist, but if it was a war the vile man wanted, she’d give it to him. She would show him she was unafraid. Finishing the screed with three hash-marks, she pulled the paper from the typewriter carriage and took the stairs to the second floor where the typesetters worked. She wouldn’t trust this one to the copy boy.

Praise

"Ripped from today's headlines--1914. Louisa Delafield and Ellen Malloy go from anarchists' bolt holes to high-society weddings, meeting everyone from Emma Goldman to John Rockefeller, putting the 'historical' in historical fiction."
–Timothy Miller, Author of The Strange Case of the Dutch Painter